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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






2. Transit of Venus on June 11.






3. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






4. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






5. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






6. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






7. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






8. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






9. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






10. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






11. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






12. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






13. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






14. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






15. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






16. Triple conjunction Mars






17. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






18. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






19. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






20. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






21. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






22. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






23. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






24. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






25. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






26. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






27. Triple conjunction Mars






28. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






29. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






30. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






31. Return of Halley's Comet.






32. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






33. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






34. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






35. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






36. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






37. Transit of Mercury.






38. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






39. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






40. Transit of Venus.






41. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






42. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






43. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






44. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






45. Triple conjunction Mars






46. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






47. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






48. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






49. March 17






50. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.